Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: Jas Grewal, CEO of CareSkore (Part 1)

Jas bootstrapped CareSkore with a paycheck and then was accelerated at YCombinator. The company rapidly scaled to over $5 million in revenues in 2016 selling a patient relationship management to hospitals and insurance companies. It’s a great window into a segment of Healthcare IT! Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to CareSkore. Jas

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Thursday, December 8 – 331st 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 331st FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, December 8, 2016, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. India IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea to Sramana Mitra. You’ll gain straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and she’ll answer any

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“49” Reasons Silicon Valley Cannot Be Cloned

By Guest Author Soren Petersen Startup communities across the globe look to Silicon Valley as their model for how to build high performance entrepreneurial ecosystems. However, attempting to copy the Silicon Valley model will almost certainly ensure their failure.

Bootstrapping to $15 Million in Three Years: Connatix CEO David Kashak (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Extraordinarily tight, disciplined strategy and execution has enabled David to build a tremendously fast growth company with a small team. A lot to learn! Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in

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Catching Up On Readings: Disrupt London Hackathon 2016

This feature from TechCrunch looks at the winner and runners up in the Disrupt London Hackathon held in London over the weekend. The winner The Emotion Journal uses IBM Watson to create a smart voice journal. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Bootstrapping to Inflection: Dan Stewart, CEO of Happy Grasshopper (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: What was the inflection point? I remember there was a channel-based inflection point that you were able to hit upon as well, right? Dan Stewart: It was the introduction of the custom-writing services that caused the spike in our revenues. Instead of providing a single message that they can send once per month,

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Bootstrapping Using Services: James Kane, CEO of RWS (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: In 2011, you had scaled significantly. Where are the revenues at this point? James Kane: I want to say they’re right around $4.5 million or so. My recollection gets a little bit fuzzy there. Sramana Mitra: What are the next strategic moves? What was the thinking behind those moves? James Kane: We entered

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Bootstrapping to Inflection: Dan Stewart, CEO of Happy Grasshopper (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Talk a bit about the ramp in customers. What was the first year and how did it grow from there? Dan Stewart: In the first year, we ended up with tens of clients from the real estate coach who was talking about our service. Somehow, a very prominent real estate agent up in

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